Murderer Of Off-duty Cop Dies By Lethal Injection

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September 25, 1997

POTOSI, Mo. - A man who killed an off-duty police officer during a 1981 street robbery in St. Louis as the victim's 11-year-old daughter watched was executed by injection Wednesday. As the drug was administered, Samuel McDonald Jr., 48, turned to his witnesses and mouthed ''I love you.'' He was pronounced dead at 12:05 a.m. In an interview Tuesday, McDonald apologized to the family of the slain officer, Robert T. Jordan. ''I am sorry for the loss of their father,'' McDonald said.

Boy's dad, aunt charged with locking him in trunk

CINCINNATI - A 9-year-old boy was locked in a car trunk for a half-hour by his father and aunt as punishment for shoplifting, authorities said Wednesday. George Lee, 40, and Brenda Lee, 37, were charged with child endangerment. Witnesses called for help after seeing Lee place his son in the trunk Monday. Douglass Lee was unhurt when police freed him.

Minneapolis mayor urges racial calm in campaign

MINNEAPOLIS - Sharon Sayles Belton, the first black mayor of Minneapolis, urged calm Wednesday after the racially charged mayoral race turned violent when candidates' supporters tangled after a debate. Witnesses to the fracas Tuesday night said Sayles Belton's bodyguard Charlie Adams, a black Minneapolis police officer, fired at least one gunshot at the tires of a car driven by Maurice Ellinger after Ellinger allegedly drove into Adams and would not get out of his car. Witnesses said Ellinger was coming to the aid of his wife, who with him supports white mayoral challenger Barbara Carlson.